The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-06

THE SUN, sUND
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here do. ftried II once, but II was too hard"
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battonhoiss. ~ pEseioas little there isi, for
who has to do that work all the time Its worse
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and do Il IN factories or farm 1t out Then the
foremen have their faSortes, and make 1t un.
Brsss III seH e wa SSa
at night to get enough to support the children
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t. snd they soon se sse That there hope
for them at honest work and they just go to
s bad and IL sslx ss 'r Ien
must DO q they expect any favor from the fore
man or the bosses"
EVEN THE PITTANcE HARD 10 GET.
Another feature Of the work OF women In the
clothing trade Is brought out BY the following
complaint. made to an association recently BY
Ninth street:
named sGis: az
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not pay me. lad xiven him the best Of rsferenee,
from % %
eight cents for thread. car fare, DO.
WAIT TILL THE CHOLERA COMES.
Philip, Leidesdorf has been IN business
for eighteen years at the corner OF Suffolk and
Houston streets His brother Is with nun now now:
take the work after those who get 1t from the
manufacturers have made It up and put In the
0" Thls sene ,1r nj house 8orf he us
tho ruin Of the clothing business, and worse
vet. it's tho ruin Of those that work at It. Some
shsse Snss and soq in Of the
s s2 %og HnSs sns day TS
take tho goods from the, tailor's and make
them up IN the rooms where they cook and
even. II people could see once the vile holes
IN which TIE clothing s made ~ they'd meyer ey
when Il comes here to have the buttonholes
put in. 1t gets aired and cleaned before it is
put up for sale. 49,. -
girls 10 wsy and s"Pn the BUSINESS they
make them work six weeks for nothing, or give
maSs 1 Of ssH E tSe% se
maybe. 50 a week for their work, and they pack
just as many Of them as they can get into one
and ali the the rest. That way they make little
siTis but i don't Do them much good tos
tho price another peg, and the more they grind
tho girls the more the manufacturer grinds
living; and the mannfac!urer himself. Ike
enough. is selling the goods for less than they
5 ssr so 1 Ss ba se TS SsIe ss
that ought to have been hung long ago for the
others sns Sas work o1 for them Look At hose
coats there; they are heavy quilted lining over
snd xs to be spees s0H oe
bateonholss, which Is Just u hall what would
%ans sins e
heavier thsn The others They pay ,y thlrty;iiys
+ he people that take the work out in tho
tenemsnt house I people S for prices. but. Of
PRICES would Be good deal higher in the city
SEWING sSsR.F{ hey
pay them good deal better IT. all On 81
never b any better til they pass laws making
It illegal for more than one, machine to be put
In an ordinary living room;"
dorfhr. u a brother. and i 'cholera or any such
disease ever gets start II this city people win
hoso Would Spread the dsess
that IL ever cholera got a start in Now YORK I'd
"a 10 too They a have 1 Beard Of Health
and laws enough here but, I've never been
In a city yet, and I've been all over tho world,
where. they allowed such things as they do
here. Only last winter. ut place In street right
near here. the children In family were sick OF
smallpox In the same room where the CLOTH
ing was being made up and sent out every day
These people don't have any more regard for
the laws or for other peoples health than they
DO for their own health. and II you have
ever been In one OF the holes where they
live and work you know how little that
cheap clothing needs a showing UP. There's a
shop near me where know they 20 to work at
o'clock every morning. and they are always
at work when go homo as late as II o'clock
at night. They got maybe So q week. There
are about forty Mt work. all in one ROOM and
they turn out 1900 pairs OF pantaloons week.
Suppose the boss only gets q cent on every
pair. he makes $40 week. and that's fortune
to that sort Of men. They arc men In this
women would"
land do you wonder that it's got so that de-
cont. fair men can't stay In the clothing busi-
ness 7. This isn't any small matter, It isn't
one thousand nor yet ten thousand that are
being ground down by these prices. but there
arc forty thousand people In this city alone
that 1t means starvation to. It's time some-
thing was done about it. Tho whole tenement
house clothing-mnking business is rotten and
ought to be abolished"